MIKE COPPOLA/GETTY IMAGESTeresa and Joe Giudice attend the season premiere of "Real Housewives of New Jersey" at the Brownstone in Paterson with their three oldest daughters last month.

In case you confused “Real Housewives of New Jersey” with a PBS documentary, court documents filed by Teresa Guidice and husband Joe put to lie a few elements of the show’s second season.

The New York Post revealed over the weekend that the Giudices have filed for bankruptcy and owe $10.85 million. According to court papers we obtained today, they have $8.7 million in liabilities. They filed on Oct. 29, in the midst of filming the second season, and in the court papers, the Giudices stipulate that in the six months prior to filing for bankruptcy, they were briefed about credit counseling opportunities and performed a budget-related analysis.

The court papers show that the Giudices’ assets include $2.2 million in real estate — $1.7 million for the lavish Towaco home seen in the series, and the remainder for a small house in Lincoln Park and a beach house in Stafford. But all of the homes have mortgages -- in the case of the small homes, several mortgages -- which exceed the value of their homes. (We indeed had an inkling of financial troubles last fall, when foreclosure proceedings were started on the Lincoln park house.)

The Giudices also owe $6.1 million to various and sundry banks, credit card companies, utilities, law offices, and construction outfits, plus nearly $20,000 to Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus, and about $12,000 to an in vitro fertilization clinic — so apparently there’s no need for Joe to get a vasectomy, as Teresa was filming requesting.

According to the filing, Joe nets $3,250 a month as owner of his stone and stucco company plus $10,000 a month in loans from his family, while Teresa makes $3,333 a month from Bravo.